Multi Packaging Solutions / Chesapeake (MPS/CSK), a leader in print and packaging for the branded consumer, healthcare, and multi-media markets has acquired Integrated Printing Solutions (IPS) and Jet Lithocolor (Jet) to create a ...
Tags: Jet Lithocolor, Multi Packaging
Hillshire Brands, a US-based food company, plans to close its manufacturing facility in Florence, Alabama, a move which will result in about 1,100 job cuts. In a regulatory filing, the company said that continuing operations at the plant ...
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H&M is committed to ensure that its fabrics are not coming from the worlds remaining ancient and endangered forest. H&M to together with the not-for-profit environmental organization Canopy by June 2014 put a plan in place to avoid ...
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A consortium of British high-technology companies, led by Torotrak PLC, has won £2.4 million funding from the UK government's Technology Strategy Board towards the development of an optimised manufacturing route for key components of ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Accessories
Woolworths has announced new long-term milk supply contracts Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced two new 10-year milk contracts across Australia that it says "will give dairy farmers and processors more certainty to ...
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More than 90 packaging technologists, engineers and designers came together for the 2014 AIP/IGD Shelf Friendly Packaging (SFP) training which was held across two states and four Woolworths sites over two weeks in March. It was the third ...
The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council today opened the call for entries for its 2014 Polyurethane Innovation Award. This award recognizes visionary technologies in the global polyurethanes ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The full colour, single pass press incorporates drop-on-demand inkjet technology using aqueous inks. The Corrstream comes in three ranges: 66, 40 and 20. Sun has linked up with an unnamed partner for the print heads. Mark Eaton, Sun ...
Bread and snack food manufacturer Goodman Fielder has announced it expects its earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) in the 2014 financial year to be approximately 10 to 15 per cent lower than the previously expected $180 million. The ...
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Panel makers have order visibility for handset panels for 3G handsets through April 2014 but are pessimistic the orders will fade out through the second quarter of the year as demand for 4G units in markets such as China is expected to ...
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The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) and the Health Product Declaration (HPD) Collaborative have formed a partnership to develop a standardized chemical identification, assessment and disclosure ...
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Continued pressure for electronic devices that provide greater functionality in ever-smaller form-factors is not only providing the driving force behind developing smaller surface-mount components and semiconductor geometries, but is also ...
Tags: PCB Substrates, Embedding Components, electronic devices
US-based sensing products developer PakSense will distribute Thinfilm Smart Labels to food suppliers and retailers, as part of a commercial distribution agreement with printed electronics products maker Thin Film Electronics. The Thinfilm ...
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Sun Chemical has teamed up with T+ink to form T+sun, an organization which will provide conductive ink solutions to make packages and objects communicate, engage customers and manage inventory systems. Drawing from the global resources of ...
Maple Leaf Foods today announced changes to its organizational structure and leadership that will be effective upon completing the sale of its 90% ownership in Canada Bread Company, Inc. to Grupo Bimbo, S.A.V. de C.V., which is expected to ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food